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RETAIL workers demanded sweeping reform of the education system today, including for politics to be part of the national curriculum.
Hundreds of delegates at the Usdaw conference at Blackpool condemned the government on a wide array of issues, accusing the Tories of neglecting the youth.
Delegates voted in favour of the Scottish government increasing funding for British Sign Language, to include politics as a subject in the national curriculum, to significantly alter schools admissions criteria, to give extra holidays for all children who attend school well and to make all schools take the same holidays off.
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